In force: 2024-02-01
11. Except in the case provided for in section 12, the adopter is entitled, as financial assistance for the child’s upkeep, to the amount of financial assistance to which a tutor is entitled in accordance with section 12 of the Regulation respecting financial assistance to facilitate tutorship and Indigenous customary tutorship to a child (chapter P-34.1, r. 5.1) less the amounts, that are reasonably attributable to the child, to which the adopter and the adopter’s spouse are entitled, on a daily basis, as the family allowance provided for in section 1029.8.61.18 of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3) and the Canada child benefit provided for in section 122.61 of the Income Tax Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Suppl.)). For the purposes of the first paragraph, the adopter’s spouse is his or her “cohabiting spouse” according to the definition of that expression provided for in section 1029.8.61.8 of the Taxation Act, or his or her “cohabiting spouse or common-law partner” according to the definition provided for in section 122.6 of the Income Tax Act.
The level of services required to determine the amount of compensation provided for in the first paragraph is established by the institution at the time of the initial application for financial assistance. For such purposes, the institution uses the Form for the determination and classification of support and assistance services provided for as a schedule to the Regulation respecting the classification of services offered by an intermediate resource and a family-type resource (chapter S-4.2, r. 3.1).
1915-2023O.C. 1915-2023, s. 11.